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Resting on an old, crumbling jetty, this Willet flock takes a rest from their migration to the north. There were about 115 Willets that graced our shores for a couple of days.
On my last day in New Jersey, I was treated to so many great birds in my yard, including several flocks of waxwings, one of my favorite birds.
i would have preferred the cloud dripping on me. but it was one of the birds. tauntingly laughing all the way.
I had a small flock of about 50 female red-winged blackbirds in my yard during Snowmageddon 2021. Taken on our first day of snow. Didn't realize at the time that I'd captured a house sparrow crashing the party.
Female Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
Male House Sparrow (Passer domesticus)
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Birds, they fly in formation, the march in formation, they sing in harmony, I look at this shot and see the flock working and gleaning the the snow of every last seed, Team Work that is my Inspire Me Thursday shot.
January 1, 2020
A couple robins, a red wing blackbird, and a starling - part of a HUGE mixed flock that has been coming to the feeder every day now.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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Today at Granny's Bay promenade this flock of birds lined up on the steps much to the delight of many out walking today. the front row of birds seemed to be enjoying the splashing surf as the waves came in.
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Tried to squeeze in a short birding trip today before the rain. By the time we got there, it was raining so we had a shortened trip. It was a nice consolation to a short trip to find this single Greater White-fronted Goose in with a small flock of Canadas.
Flock of birds in the family Hirundinidae ready to migrate south for winter, resting on cables in front of blue sky
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
- 5120x2160;
- STLM 2.2, ReShade framework w/ custom LUT,
- Zanzer's cheat table for setting time of day;
- Timestop, weather toggle and tilt via Photomode2inOne.
A small flock of 312 Snow Geese - Looking North from Beach Road (across from Tom's Cove), Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, Assateague Island, Chincoteague, Virginia
30 of the geese in the image are first year birds, while 9 others are either immature Blue Snow Geese and/or intergrades between the White and Blue morphs of the Snow Goose.
And if you look very closely you will also find a Ring-billed Gull,
4 Mallard Ducks, and an American Shoveler
(318 birds in all)
Notes:
This is a reprocess of a 300 mm, 2 level, 21 capture Snow Goose panorama, captured in 2010, when my 3 had a whole lot less scratches on it.
The image was captured during one of my infamous Jersey loops to the south. The loop would often include places like Brig (Edwin B Forsythe NWR), Cape May, the Cape May Ferry to Bombay Hook NWR, Assateague National Seashore / Chincoteague NWR, Blackwater NWR, a visit with brother Bill in Ellicott City (Maryland), Conowingo, and the Delaware Memorial Bridge back to Jersey with possible stop-overs at the Pine Barrens or the D&R Aqueduct over the Millstone on the way home. The loop trip would take from 3 to 7 days and I figure I must had done that loop 5 – 10 times the last ten or so years I lived in Berkeley Heights. Other popular places (like the Hook and LBI) would have been day trips with travel times of an hour or so from Berkeley Heights. While Warren Green Acres and The Great Swamp NWR were pretty much in my back yard (less than 5 miles from BH).
FYI - The places with the boldface blue font are links to albums of images I captured at those places. So the 3 of you who have read this far can see what you might find if you go there.
I usually see solo egrets at the Steigerwald Nature Reserve, but this morning they were enjoying a lot of company.
April 2025: I love photographing flocks of birds when they take flight. When we came across this flock of Black-breasted Weavers I was over the moon, hoping they would fly. And yes, they did some nice flying which I was able to capture - Sultanpur, Harayana, India 🇮🇳
A massive flock of starlings takes flight over vines planted near the Canal de la Robine (a canal linking Narbonne to the Canal du Midi) in rural Languedoc.
A composite image of fantails (piwakawaka) catching their breakfast high in the trees above Mangatautari in the Waikato
A small flock of American white pelicans flying overhead on a fairly clear blue sky day near the BK Leach Conservation Area
Blizzard is clearly not your ordinary, run-of-the-mill Rock Dove. She/he attached him/herself to our local flock about a year or so ago and has been a regular ever since. The really strange thing is that Blizzard has never, not even once, flown down from our house roof to feed at our feeders with the rest of the flock. Not sure what Blizzard lives on but it's certainly isn't our bird feed! The early morning sun provided the nice warm white to Blizzards feathers. I see no leg band—which adds some mystery to where he/she came from as clearly he's not a wild bird (and check out those nice feathered feet!).
Years ago I was friends with a fellow who raced pigeons and occasionally he would get calls from people who found one of his birds at their home (all the birds have bands identifying their owners with contact information). They would call him up and ask what they should do with the bird and his answer was always "Eat it!" Once the shock wore off a bit he would explain that these are homing racing birds and the bird they had never made it home—it was useless as a racing bird so they might as well keep it as a pet (or supper) since he had no use for it.
An unforeseen time travel: a group of people wearing rococo clothing came suddenly flocking in to this park terrace and, when all were there, started to perform a courtly dance.
Und tatsächlich trifft das Wort "Zeitreise" genau mit der Eigenbeschreibung der Gruppe auf ihrer Homepage überein, in der es heißt: "Von Jahr zu Jahr gehen zunehmend mehr Menschen auf Zeitreise. Durch das gemeinsame Hobby haben wir uns kennengelernt und schließlich eine darstellende Gruppe formiert. Wir sind eine Gemeinschaft aller Altersklassen, und nennen uns die 'Höfische Gesellschaft e.V.'.
Unsere Charaktere entführen Sie in vergangene Epochen." Wir haben uns gern entführen lassen und sind geblieben, als dann nach höfischem Ritual getanzt wurde.
Die Website des Vereins schreibt sich mit Umlaut, also ö, was inzwischen akzeptiert wird, nur nicht von Flickr, das den Link in eine unsinnige Buchstabenfolge umwandelt. Deshalb kann ich den Link hier nicht eintragen. Aber wenn Sie in die Suchfunktion "Höfische Gesellschaft" eingeben, gelangen Sie auch auf die entsprechende Seite.
And indeed, the word "time travel" exactly matches the group's self-description on their homepage, which says: "From year to year, more and more people go on time travel. Through the common hobby we got to know each other and finally formed a performing group. We are a community of all ages, and call ourselves the Courtly Society e.V.".
Our characters whisk you away to bygone eras." We were happy to be whisked away and stayed when there was then dancing according to courtly ritual.
The association's web address is written with an umlaut, i.e. ö, which is now accepted, except by Flickr, which converts the link into a nonsensical string of letters. That's why I can't put the link here. But if you enter "Höfische Gesellschaft" in the search function, you will also get to the corresponding page.